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Reading and reviewing have a place of prime importance in a

student’s overall achievement in school. For this reason, this

required summer “success” booklet is given at the end of the

school year in June.

Students are expected to complete the reading and review packets

and be ready to report on them when they return for classes in

September, even for a Term 2 course.

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English DepartmentEnglish Department

Ancient Literature (Grade 9)

Goddess of Yesterday, Caroline B. Cooney (read first)

Troy, Adele Geras.

American Lit., Women’s Studies, Honors/AP English Lit. (Grades 11 & 12)

How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster.

All Grade 12 Students

Seniors are required to draft a version of the Common Application essay for 2009-2010. Seniors will be expected to turn in a first draft of their college essay on Orientation Day, August 27, 2009 to be reviewed by the English Department. This essay will comprise their first grade in their English class for the 2009-2010 school year. A copy of the prompt will be made available to students during the last week of school.

Mathematics DepartmentMathematics Department

All Mathematics review packets are due to your Class Moderator on Orientation Day, August 27, 2009, regardless of which term the course will be taken. This work will be the basis of a grade in your class.

Every student in the Upper School will receive a summer mathematics packet from this year’s math teacher, specific to her requested course. This packet will also be available on the web site http://www.ashmi.org/page.cfm?p=1105.

Science DepartmentScience Department

Chemistry/Honors Chemistry

Summer review packet provided by the Science Department. This packet will also be available on the web site http://www.ashmi.org/page.cfm?p=1105.

Social Studies and History DepartmentSocial Studies and History Department

Honors/Advanced Placement United States History

The Jungle, U. Sinclair

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, H.B. Stowe.

Summer review packet provided by Mr. Raitzsch, along with US History textbook. This packet will also be available on the web site http://www.ashmi.org/page.cfm?p=1105.

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Honors European History

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age, William Manchester. Pick up from Mrs. Rumbell with questionnaire.

Visual Arts Department Visual Arts Department

Advanced Art

The Art Spirit, Henri. Advice to art students as relevant today as when written.

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Art and Fear-Observations on the Perils and Rewards of Artmaking, David Bayles and Ted Orland. Insights and advice for art students and working artists about the joys and challenges of art making.

World Language DepartmentWorld Language Department

French 2, 3, 4, 5

French review packets will be required for some students in response to personal needs. Packets will be found in individual Prize Day envelopes.

French 5

Les Trois Mousuetaires, Alexandre Dumas (modified edition, CLE Interna-tional ISBN 9782090318067).

Latin 2, 3

Flash card/paradigm review once a week.

Spanish 5

La casa en Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (ISBN 0-679-75526-8). You will be tested on the content of this book at the beginning of the class.

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All Group Leaders, Class Officers and Members of the All Group Leaders, Class Officers and Members of the

NucleusNucleus

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, Sean Covey.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey.

Art Department (Visual & Performing)Art Department (Visual & Performing)

Summer or class reading option: Any one of these titles may receive credit as outside-of-class work in a studio art course.

These books and additional titles are available in the Art Room and may be checked out.

Art

The Zen of Seeing, Franck. Seeing and drawing as a way of rediscovering the world.

Mary Cassatt: An American Impressionist, Gruitrooy. The life and work of one of the two women artists in the Impressionist group of painters.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, da Vinci, Richter, ed. Notes and sketches by the Renaissance genius of invention and creativity.

The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone. Biographical novel about Michelangelo, the Renaissance sculptor and painter.

My Name is Asher Lev, Potok. A novel about a young Orthodox Jewish boy who struggles to reconcile his artistic calling with his religion.

The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, Roskill, ed. Vincent’s letters to his brother Theo illuminate the artist and his work.

Clay

Pueblo Pottery of the New Mexico Indians, Toulouse. Guide to the extraordinary pottery of Native American artists.

Yanagi: The Unknown Craftsman, Yanagi. Offers a Japanese insight into beauty; though out-of-print, may be available in some library collections.

Photography

Any monographs on Ansel Adams, Margaret Bourke-White, Imogen Cunningham, etc.

National Geographic Magazine

Photoshop Bible. Quite necessary if you wish to advance into electronic photography with a head start.


Choir or Instrumental Ensemble

The Harvard Brief Dictionary of Music, Willi Apel. Provides a wide range of definitions, descriptions, and identifications. Brief explanations of numerous individual works, operas and symphonies, and many musical examples, charts and line drawings for a student without special musical training.

Bach, Beethoven and the Boys, David Barbers. Factual account of music history. An entertaining volume of music criticism (1700-1820).

English DepartmentEnglish Department

Ancient Literature (Grade 9)

Mythology, Edith Hamilton.

British Literature (Grade 10)

Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte.

American Literature (Grade 11)

A Separate Peace, John Knowles.

AP English Literature (Grade 12)

Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut.

The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles.

360º of Reading: A Literature Guide for the College Bound (Vol. 1), W.E. Poplaski

100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Mathematics DepartmentMathematics Department

Flatland, Edwin A. Abbott. A delightful mathematical and science fiction satire.

A Gebra Named Al, Wendy Isdell. A novel about a girl who hates math until she meets a gebra named Al.

Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki. Exploring personal finance.

Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Justel. An ingenious fantasy.

Aha! Gotcha, Marvin Gainer. Recreation and games.

Women in Mathematics, Lynn Osen. Lively history of women mathematicians and scientists that describes their lives, challenges and achievements.

The Sand Reckoner, Gillian Bradshaw. A novel about Archimedes.


Science DepartmentScience Department

Biology and Honors Biology (Grade 9)

Lucy: The Beginning of Humankind, Johanson. Johanson provides a thrilling, real-life adventure of his extraordinary discovery of the “Lucy” skeleton in the early 1970’s.

Lucy’s Child, Johanson. In 1986 Johansen returns to Africa to find other fossils from Lucy’s family in this journey into the exhilarating heart of scientific discovery.

Inherit The Wind, Lawrence and Lee. This drama is based in the 1925 scopes “monkey trial” about a high school teacher who is brought to trial when he breaks the law by teaching his class Darwinian evolution.

In the Shadow of Man, Goodall. This classic account of primate behavior combines a landmark scientific study with a fascinating story of a determined young woman’s struggle to approach primates in the wild.

The Origin, Stone. This is a biographic novel of Charles Darwin.

Genetics

The Double Helix, Watson. Watson provides an inside-the-laboratory account of his Nobel Prize Winning discovery of the structure of DNA.

Rosalind Franklin and DNA, Sayer. The first full account of Rosalind Franklin’s role in the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA.

The Transforming Principle, McCarty. McCarty’s elegantly written account of the discovery that DNA is the hereditary material – perhaps the most important discovery of biology in the 20th century.

Jurassic Park, Crichton. With well-preserved bits of DNA from dinosaurs, a scientist creates a theme park of cloned dinosaurs.

The Science of Jurassic Park and the Lost World, DeSalle & Lindley. Two scientists examine how close we really are to making the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park a reality.

Honors Molecular Biology

Cracking the Genome, Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA, Davies. The dramatic story of one of the greatest scientific feats ever accomplished: the mapping and sequencing of the human genome. A clear account of the “epic battle” between the public Human Genome Project, lead by Francis Collins, and the private Celera Genomics company, founded by Craig Venter.


Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Ridley. An account of the stories of one or two genes on each chromosome and their role in our development and life along with the implications of genetic research and our attitudes toward this newly discovered information.

The Language of God, Dr. Francis Collins. Head of the Human Genome Project, and one of the world’s leading scientists, writes his personal account of finding God and explains how God and biological science are compatible.

Social Studies DepartmentSocial Studies Department

Government (Grades 11 & 12)

Nine and Counting, Catherine Whitney. Biographical sketch of the women of the Senate.

Honors/AP United States History

The Feminine Mystique, B. Friedan

United States History (Grade 11)

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, Kevin Boyle.

Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's (Perennial Classics), Frederick L. Allen. "If time were suddenly to turn back to the earliest days of the Post-war Decade, and you were to look about you, what would seem..."

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne.

The Letters of John and Abigail Adams, Abigail Adams & Frank Shuffelton

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Paperback), Erik Larson. "A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago..."

The Colonial Mosaic: American Women 1600-1760 (Young Oxford History of Women in the United States Series), Jane Kamensky. "Pocahontas, the beloved daughter of one of the most powerful leaders in North America, was little more than a child when strangers from across the..."

World History

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer, Irene Gut Opdyke with Jennifer Armstrong.

Technology DepartmentTechnology Department

Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte. One of the founding fathers of the information age provides an inside glimpse of the impact of digital technology on the modern world.


Theology DepartmentTheology Department

Introduction to the Bible (Grade 9)

Book of Colossians, Sacred Writer. One of the 27 Books of the Christian Scriptures.

Christian Lifestyles /Social Justice (Grade 10)

Anna’s Story: A Journey of Hope, Jenna Bush

It’s Your World -- If you don’t like it, CHANGE IT, Mark Halpin

Living the Catholic Social Tradition, Kathleen Mass, et al, eds.

Meditation Plain and Simple, Christina Feldman

World Religions & Church History (Grades 11 & 12)

Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl

World Language DepartmentWorld Language Department

French 3

Un Ete Pas comme les Autres, Huguette Zahler (ISBN 87720-479-9).

French 4

Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours, Jules Verne (modified edition, CLE Interna-tional ISBN 9780821918623).

Latin 1, 2, 3

Pompeii, Robert Harris.

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas Cahill

The Roman Way, Edith Hamilton

Spanish 3-4

La casa en Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (ISBN 0-679-75526-8). A collection of short stories in which the author tells the story of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago.

Spanish 4-5

Neruda: Selected Poems (ISBN 0395-544189-1). Dual language book (Spanish-English). “The poems were selected by Neruda himself; their richness and variety show the many faces and modes of Neruda, the most prolific and loved poet of our time.” comment taken from back cover of book.

Spanish 5

Antologia esencial (ISBN 84-494-1055-X). The poetry of Pablo Neruda. All poems in Spanish.

FFACULTYACULTY “F“FAVORITESAVORITES””

All Quiet on the Western Front.................................................. Mr. Krogh Romans 12:2...................................................................................... Dr. Meyer “Do not conform to the ways of this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.” The Blessing of the Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel.............. Mrs. Eidelman A Mind at a Time by Dr. Mel Levine.......................................... Mrs. Eidelman Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali............................................................... Mrs. Rumbell

Memoir of Ayaan’s astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands and her current life under armed guard in the west.

The Matarese Circle, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Legacy by Robert Ludlum ....... Mrs. Jones The Mitford series by Jan Karon.................................................. Mrs. Jones The Language of God by Dr. Francis Collins............................ Mrs. Jones Twilight Series (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse) by Stephenie Meyer................................................................................ Ms. Hehs

On their Course Objectives Sheet at the beginning of each course, teachers will identify specific school supplies which are deemed necessary to a student’s success. To help families in planning, we include some of those here: All Math & Science Classes

• T1-83 Calculator or equivalent

• 1½ inch 3-ring binder (at least 1½ inches) with dividers

• Colored pencils and highlighters Biology/Honors Biology/Genetics/Honors Molecular Biology

• Loose-leaf paper (lined)

• #2 pencil (must be used for labs)

• Blue or black ink pen Chemistry/Honors Chemistry & Physical Science


• #2 pencil (must be used for labs)

• Blue or black ink pen Forensics

• Time Magazine French

• 501 French Verbs, Fourth Edition, Christopher Kendris (ISBN 0-8120-9281-3). You will also need a good English-French/French-English dictionary. (i.e. Larousse Pocket Dictionary: New Edition ISBN 2-08-542085-7)

Geometry

• Geometry tool kit protractor

• Compass

• Ruler

• Right Angle

• Loose-leaf paper (lined) Physics/Honors Physics

• Folder for quizzes and tests

• Pencils

• Colored ink pens (not blue or black)

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Spanish 3-5

• 3-ring binder with dividers


• Red ink pen, pencils and erasers

• 501 Spanish Verbs, (ISBN 0-7641-2428-5)

• Websters New World Spanish Dictionary, (ISBN 0-13-953647-7) Theatre

• 3-ring binder

• Unlined paper

• Colored pencils

• Dividers

• Glue U.S. History/World History/US Government

• Set of 12 colored pencils

• 3-ring binder With the exception of teachers requiring specific methods of organizing their notes and papers, students will find that keeping track of their materials is a personal matter, and as such, some supplies are dependent upon personal preference. Students might, however, find it helpful to have general supplies such as:

• Loose leaf paper, Duotang folders (1 or 2), pens (black, blue, red), #2 pencils, highlighters (for books and notes), pencil case (personal preference).

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